Half Of Of People Do Not Know Wherein To Locate The Defibrillator At Work : Photographs

About half of all U.S. employees don’t, according to the results of an American Heart Association survey.
Cost and fear of liability are two reasons that businesses don’t install AED, Kurz says, but those are misperceptions.
She went into cardiac arrest in the bathroom of a restaurant where she had been eating dinner with her husband.
“This is a relatively simple intervention, the provision of CPR training and providing an AED,” Kurz says.
The low numbers surprised Dr. Michael Kurz, an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Alabama-Birmingham and an American Heart Association spokesperson.